I suck at this.

[Drew Weaver]

    Anyway, reading the instructions fixed the permissions issue.

so now I have a mailbox and a user created for aweaver, huzzah.

When as root i send an email to aweaver at localhost.localdomain I get:

Jun 19 13:40:32 localhost sendmail[1282]: h5JHeViI001282:
from=<root at localhost.localdomain>, size=269, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<Pin
e.LNX.4.56.0306191340270.1281 at localhost.localdomain>, proto=ESMTP,
relay=root at localhost
Jun 19 13:40:32 localhost sendmail[1285]: h5JHeWaf001285:
from=<root at localhost.localdomain>, size=459, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<Pin
e.LNX.4.56.0306191340270.1281 at localhost.localdomain>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Jun 19 13:40:32 localhost sendmail[1284]: h5JHeViI001282:
to=<aweaver at localhost.localdomain>, ctladdr=<root at localhost.localdomain> (
0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30263,
relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (h5JHeWaf001285
Message accepted for delivery)
Jun 19 13:40:32 localhost sendmail[1287]: h5JHeWaf001285:
to=<aweaver at localhost.localdomain>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, maile
r=cyrusv2, pri=30453, relay=localhost, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Jun 19 13:40:32 localhost sendmail[1287]: h5JHeWaf001285: h5JHeWaf001287:
DSN: User unknown
Jun 19 13:40:32 localhost sendmail[1287]: h5JHeWaf001287: to=nobody,
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=cyrusv2, pri=31483, rel
ay=localhost [[UNIX: /var/imap/socket/lmtp]], dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Jun 19 13:40:32 localhost sendmail[1287]: h5JHeWaf001287: h5JHeWag001287:
return to sender: User unknown
Jun 19 13:40:32 localhost sendmail[1287]: h5JHeWag001287: to=nobody,
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=cyrusv2, pri=32507, rel
ay=localhost [[UNIX: /var/imap/socket/lmtp]], dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Jun 19 13:40:32 localhost sendmail[1287]: h5JHeWaf001287: Losing
./qfh5JHeWaf001287: savemail panic
Jun 19 13:40:32 localhost sendmail[1287]: h5JHeWaf001287: SYSERR(root):
savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

[root at localhost log]# grep aweaver /etc/shadow
aweaver:$1$Z32QG1ZE$ugO34DtQbVIPZorpZZ62d.:12222:0:99999:7:::
[root at localhost log]# ls -la /var/spool/mail
total 12
drwxr-x---    3 cyrus    mail         4096 Jun 19 13:14 .
drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root         4096 Jun 13 11:46 ..
drwx------    2 cyrus    cyrus        4096 Jun 19 13:14 aweaver

so apparently everything is there?

I also have one other problem. if i ...

[root at localhost log]# telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK localhost.localdomain Cyrus POP3 v2.1.13 server ready
<3997557424.1056044557 at localhost.localdomain>
user aweaver
+OK Name is a valid mailbox
pass 1
-ERR [SYS/PERM] Unable to open maildrop
quit
+OK
Connection closed by foreign host.

Log entry: Jun 19 13:42:41 localhost pop3d[1294]: login:
localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] aweaver plaintext

but:

[root at localhost log]# login
login: aweaver
Password:
You have mail.
No directory /home/aweaver!

so the acct exists and the pw works...

configdirectory: /var/imap
partition-default: /var/spool/mail
admins: root
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN

thats my config, saslauthd is running:

-bash-2.05b$ ps -xa | grep saslauthd
 1083 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd/mux -a
shadow
 1089 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd/mux -a
shadow

any advice?
-Drew